WSJ seeks deputy editor for weekend Business & Finance

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a deputy editor to work with the section editor on all aspects of commissioning and editing feature stories, columns and visual journalism for a weekly section about the week’s news in business and finance.

This person will manage the publication during the week across all digital platforms, culminating in a print section.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience conceiving and editing feature stories, columns and other recurring fixtures; constructing and pacing the architectural elements of an inviting feature section; managing an editing staff; managing complex and sensitive news stories.

Chris Roush is the Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

This website is operated by Chris Roush, who teaches “Writing and Reporting,” “Business Reporting,” “Economics Reporting,” and “Business and the Media” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.